Wow, you guys. I mean, wow. Lots to talk about.
So, yeah. Dexter and Lila totally boinking like bunnies all throughout the episode? Yikes. Dexter going so far as to break into an empty house just for that purpose? A bit out of character, but I"ll allow it.
You know who won"t? Rita. She"s clearly still pretty depressed about her breakup with our leading man, but at least some good comes of it: Dexter"s absence allows her to see what a controlling beeyotch her mother actually is, and she basically kicks her right the fuck out of there after discovering that Mama"s home school board fired her over a year ago.
On the work front, Dexter has sent a thirty-page manifesto to the department to throw them off his scent, and it works for a while, but everyone ends up bickering about what it means, and Lundy figures out that that"s exactly what Dexter wants. Naturally, this also helps him conclude that the suspect most certainly has a law enforcement background. Speaking of Lundy and law enforcement, Deb totally breaks up with Gabe and tells Lundy how much she likes him. Then she kisses him. It"s fuckin" on!
Also on the work front, Dexter sets Doakes up to look like a raging nutbar by telling him in confidence that the blood spatter at a crime scene is something that it"s not, incriminating Dr. Creed from Pet Sematary as a teen-beater. Doakes keeps the guy for questioning while Dex finishes the blood report and hides it on Doakes"s desk, making him look like an asshole. Doakes figures it out right away, and confronts Dexter in his lab. Dexter essentially calls Doakes his bitch and head-butts his face, then walks nonchalantly into the office where Doakes tackles him and beats his face in. Dexter plays an impeccable innocent, and LaGuerta immediately suspends Doakes on the spot, but I have a feeling this shit is far from over.
Hey, speaking of nutbars? Lila"s totally one. She sells one of her "pieces" to some rich idiot, who shells out eighteen grand for one of her "sculptures," and then turns around and torches the thing, only to set her place on fire, too. Totally could"ve been avoided, methinks. Anyway, Dexter shows up to comfort her, and she does the whole "promise me you"ll never leave me" thing, making me cringe and think she"s nuts. I think we haven"t seen all there is to see with her, and I"m pretty sure the season is going to end with her dead at Dexter"s hands. That"s not a spoiler, it"s just a guess. As usual, don"t email me. I know nothing.
But trust me, she will die.